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“Somehow we find it hard to sell our values, namely that the rich should plunder the poor.”
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“We may idealize freedom, but when it comes to our habits, we are completely enslaved.”
Source : Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller: Revised and Updated Edition”, p.37, Harper Collins
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“Now there's always exceptions to that and the reason is if the film doesn't really work, whereas before you could rely on a decent amount of DVD sales to prop up the revenue to ensure that you got out in a decent manner, now if the film doesn't work, the film doesn't work and there's none of that DVD revenue to fall back on and you can lose a huge, huge sum of money on a big budget movie.”
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“The metallic silver coating found on fast-food game cards.”
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“He who is discouraged after a failure is not a real artist.”
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“Wine is one of the most complex of all beverages: the fruit of a soil, climate, and vintage, digested by a fungus through a process guided by the culture, vision, and skill of an individual man or woman.”
Source : Neel Burton (2016). “The Concise Guide to Wine and Blind Tasting, second edition”, p.22, Acheron Press
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“I am a woman / who understands / the necessity of an impulse whose goal or origin / still lie beyond me.”
Source : Olga Broumas (1999). “Rave: poems, 1975-1999”, Copper Canyon Pr
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“One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.”
